Railways proclaims new guidelines for Tatkal tickets: In an effort to stop the malpractices by brokers and be certain that frequent folks obtain the advantage of Tatkal ticket scheme, the Ministry of Railways has modified the scheme. From July, solely these customers who’ve authenticated their account utilizing Aadhaar will be capable of ebook tatkal tickets.
“With impact from 01.07.2025, tickets below tatkal scheme could be booked by way of the web site of Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Company (IRCTC)/its app solely by Aadhaar authenticated customers. Subsequently, Aadhaar-based OTP authentication shall even be made obligatory for the tatkal reserving from 15.07.2025,” reads the round issued by the Railway Ministry on June 10.
Together with the net ticket reserving system, the brand new rule will probably be utilized on counter tickets as nicely. “Tatkal tickets shall be obtainable for reserving by way of computerised PRS (passenger reservation system) counters of Indian Railways/authorised brokers solely after authentication of a system generated OTP which shall be despatched by way of the system on the cell quantity furnished by the consumer on the time of reserving. This shall even be carried out by 15.07.2025,” mentioned the round additional.
In response to the brand new rule, the authorised ticketing brokers of the Indian Railways shall not be allowed to ebook tatkal tickets throughout the first half-hour of opening of reserving for AC in addition to non-AC journey courses. It means the brokers won’t be allowed to ebook tatkal tickets from 10 am to 10.30 am for air-conditioned courses and from 11 am to 11.30 am for non-air conditioned courses.
The Centre for Railway Info Methods (CRIS), the technological wing of the Indian Railways, and IRCTC have been requested to make needed modification within the system accordingly below intimation to all zonal railways.
In response to the information obtainable with the Ministry of Railways, each day, round 2,25,000 passengers ebook Tatkal tickets by way of the net platform of the Indian Railways.
An evaluation of the net Tatkal ticket reserving sample from Could 24 to June 2 by the Railways exhibits that on a mean 5,615 out of 1,08,000 AC class tickets have been booked within the first minute after the window opened. A complete of twenty-two,827 tickets have been booked within the second minute. Within the AC class, a mean of 67,159 tickets or 62.5 per cent of Tatkal tickets every day have been booked on-line throughout the first 10 minutes of the window opening. The remaining 37.5 per cent tickets have been booked between 10 minutes until chart preparation, out of which 3.01 per cent of Tatkal tickets have been booked after 10 hours of the window opening.
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Within the non-AC class, from Could 24 to June 2, a mean of 1,18,567 tickets have been booked on-line every day. Of those, 4,724 tickets — about 4 per cent — have been booked throughout the first minute, whereas 20,786 tickets — about 17.5 per cent — have been booked within the second minute. Roughly 66.4 % of tickets have been bought throughout the first 10 minutes after the window opened and the remainder of the tickets have been booked after that.
A senior official of the Ministry of Railways mentioned that the proposal for the e-Aadhaar authentication system is a part of the marketing campaign in opposition to the usage of automated instruments to ebook tickets on-line.
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